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Turkey election — A woman leaves a polling booth to cast her vote at a polling station during the mayoral election re-run in Istanbul on June 23, 2019. — ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images

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A couple walks past billboards with the portrait of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) and with the portrait of Republican People's Party (CHP) leader and presidential candidate, Kemal Kilicdaroglu (R) in Sanliurfa, south-eastern Turkey on April 28, 2023. (Photo by OZAN KOSE / AFP) (Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images)

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